Would you choose Vancouver or Acadia?

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Anonymous wrote:Been to both - Acadia, hands down. In Vancouver, you have to really work at finding the fun. I enjoyed my trip to Vancouver as an adult, newly married. It's like any other big city, really.

But, with kids, Acadia is the place to go. Ice cream stores, hiking, natural beauty everywhere, lobster, the national park.

Really? We were there last summer and I didn't feel that we were "working" to find fun?

explored Stanley Park our first day (went to the aquarium, took a carriage ride, saw the totem poles, rented bikes and rode along the sea wall, walked along the beach at low tide looking at tidal pools)
did the Capilano Suspension Bridge and Cliff walk
rode the aquabus to Granville Island
checked out the the Chinese Garden
rode the gondola up to Grouse Mountain and did the aerial obstacle course
drove up the Sea to Sky highway, stopped at Shannon Falls and Brandywine Falls, and did the Sea to Sky gondola
Went whale watching
took a seaplane to Victoria, walked around the harbor area, had a nice lunch at the Empress hotel

NP here. We did many similar things a few years back (plus saw the Women's World Cup). There is so much to do in Vancouver. If your girls don't love to hike, then I vote Vancouver. You can still do lots of active things (and lots of walking too) but balance it out with other activities.

OP here. Do you have any other activities to add to this list?

Not the PP, but that's a solid list, and a few other nice things in Vancouver:

VanDusen Botantical Gardens (if you are into plants/flowers/gardens it's amazing)
Kitsilano Beach/English Bay Beach
The food! Such good food, especially various East Asian and Indian

Hence, the nickname, Van Kong.

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The nickname is actually hongcouver, if you need to be racist like that. However we don’t say that as most Canadians embrace diversity.

[Anonymous]

We are going to Acadia this summer, but this Spring I went to Vancouver on a business trip and I thought it would make an awesome family trip. It’s the perfect mix of city and nature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Been to both - Acadia, hands down. In Vancouver, you have to really work at finding the fun. I enjoyed my trip to Vancouver as an adult, newly married. It's like any other big city, really.

But, with kids, Acadia is the place to go. Ice cream stores, hiking, natural beauty everywhere, lobster, the national park.

You had me at lobster!

OP, go to Acadia.

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I do believe it's "lobsta"!

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Vancouver looks nice, but the heroin addicts everywhere you turn really turned me off.

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Anonymous wrote:Been to both - Acadia, hands down. In Vancouver, you have to really work at finding the fun. I enjoyed my trip to Vancouver as an adult, newly married. It's like any other big city, really.

But, with kids, Acadia is the place to go. Ice cream stores, hiking, natural beauty everywhere, lobster, the national park.

Really? We were there last summer and I didn't feel that we were "working" to find fun?

explored Stanley Park our first day (went to the aquarium, took a carriage ride, saw the totem poles, rented bikes and rode along the sea wall, walked along the beach at low tide looking at tidal pools)
did the Capilano Suspension Bridge and Cliff walk
rode the aquabus to Granville Island
checked out the the Chinese Garden
rode the gondola up to Grouse Mountain and did the aerial obstacle course
drove up the Sea to Sky highway, stopped at Shannon Falls and Brandywine Falls, and did the Sea to Sky gondola
Went whale watching
took a seaplane to Victoria, walked around the harbor area, had a nice lunch at the Empress hotel

NP here. We did many similar things a few years back (plus saw the Women's World Cup). There is so much to do in Vancouver. If your girls don't love to hike, then I vote Vancouver. You can still do lots of active things (and lots of walking too) but balance it out with other activities.

OP here. Do you have any other activities to add to this list?

Not the PP, but that's a solid list, and a few other nice things in Vancouver:

VanDusen Botantical Gardens (if you are into plants/flowers/gardens it's amazing)
Kitsilano Beach/English Bay Beach
The food! Such good food, especially various East Asian and Indian

Hence, the nickname, Van Kong.

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The nickname is actually hongcouver, if you need to be racist like that. However we don’t say that as most Canadians embrace diversity.

That's not racism. Get a clue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vancouver looks nice, but the heroin addicts everywhere you turn really turned me off.

I just went to Vancouver and did not have this issue.

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Is Acadia the first week of August a terrible idea? Is that peak season + peak mosquito season?

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Vancouver.

Save Acadia for when they are old enough to do the Beehive hike.

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Anonymous wrote:Many places in Maine are overrated. Ogunquit? Please.

Acadia is worth the hype. There is nowhere like it in the eastern us.

But yes, that brings the crowds...

I completely agree with the bolded part of you statement and still found it completely underwhelming. Once you've been to Western North America, nothing on the East Coast compares.

Disagree. Totally agree that anything west of Rockies (including Rockies) is 10000x more amazing than east coast places like Shenandoah and Smokies. But Acadia is still very beautiful and dramatic.

I’ve spent a lot of time in the PNW and Alaska, but I still love Maine and find it uniquely beautiful. You may have a preference, but that doesn’t mean everyone agrees.

[Anonymous]

Vancouver plus Vancouver Island. Without a doubt.

Acadia is lovely but largely in the sense that it reminds me of the PNW. So I would prefer to go to the real thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Vancouverite again, adding it the list:

- UBC rose gardens
- kitsilano
- false creek and Olympic village
- side trip to Victoria (it’s so beautiful it even makes Vancouver look like a dump and that’s hard!!)
- white rock
- Shannon falls
- lynn canyon
- kayak or paddle boat on the water in false creek
- bike around the sea wall
- English bay and coal harbour

There is so much to do on beautiful vacnocuver I can’t believe anyone would say there’s nothing to do. That’s mind blowing. I didn’t even have a drivers licence until I turned 30, because Vancouver is totally walkable and the public transit is excellent. Amazing food.

+1 and I am not even Canadian! It is not even a contest. Vancouver and the surrounding areas have everything Acadia has plus a zillion things more.